Seems like if all the info in your Access database is pristine and
correct, then the problem is not to populate the slimserver.db, but to
propogate the TAGS from your Access records.
I believe tag.exe can do this
http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/files/tag.txt
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JSonnabend Wrote:
That characterization is as self-serving as it is inaccurate. Slim
collects limited information from file tags and allows -zero- central
management of your data. And it allows for a bare minimum of
information at that (quick, tell me how many tracks you have released
I'd like to learn more about what you are doing here.
Specifically, if changing the virtual mac address to operate multiple
SoftSqueezes work for you (which I believe it should) how are you
getting them to play out of multiple soundcards?
Is it possible to install multiple sound cards on a PC
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Thanks for your reply. I tried that too after checking older threads in
the archives. No dice.
I kept the key pressed before and after plugging in the connector.
Did it actually do the factory reset? Did you have to re-enter all the
settings?
Exactly last night I had the same issue: the box
It actually was checked into subversion and most is still in the
current sources. Just see the changes to the file
Slim/Buttons/TrackInfo.pm around 6 month ago to find the removed
lines.
I'll see what's still there. A lot has changed the past two days...
I have a few days off next week and
It actually was checked into subversion and most is still in the
current sources. Just see the changes to the file
Slim/Buttons/TrackInfo.pm around 6 month ago to find the removed
Is it this change?:
http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/Slim/Buttons/TrackInfo.pm?rev=5068r1=5034r2=5068
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bit silly for not trying it before asking. Thanks for the help.
I'm using a M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard with breakout box. It supports 10
out channels (5 stereo pairs). Each stereo pair is treated as a separate
sound
fingers Wrote:
u this is more than greek to me. The ripper is Easy CD-DA
Extractor.
First question then - how are you finding the album to be able to play
it? Are you
(1) using Browse Music folder to navigate through your directory
structure till you find the folder that has the
The SB3 is still unresponsive. It failed to reset to factory settings
after numerous attempts. I will let it rest for 24 hours and try back
tomorrow night. By then, hopefully, I should have an answer from tech
support.
The strange thing about all this is how sudden and unexpected the
death was.
I use my Dell Axim PDA. I use the Java EWE tool that someone has written
to control it rather than the web browser interface. It's much more
responsive.
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I have one of the WAG54G's with the built-in ADSL modem. No firmware
update for that by the look of it :-(
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Nathaniel Morgan Wrote:
I'm using a M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard with breakout box. It supports
10
out channels (5 stereo pairs). Each stereo pair is treated as a
separate
sound device by Windows. You just configure each softsqueeze instance
with
one of the stereo pair virtual
Not too bad for resource use - they seem to take about 7% CPU each
(including any SlimServer overheads - I'm running it on the same box) on my
Athlon64. Could be media encoding dependant though?
I might try out alternative players with their own web interfaces sometime
(MediaPlayerClassic,
Hello,
I used to run slimserver on a Linux box, with the music stored on a NAS
device. That Linux box just died on me so I moved to server to my new
Intel iMac. (I used the Mac 6.2.2 dmg file)
And there I found out that it is barely usable.
- The web interface is slow. It takes _several
Well, I have to agree with NWP that this has been an interesting thread,
one of those that takes on a life of its own... it started out with a
debate about the merits of case sensitivity, did a neat hand-brake turn
on the point of whether databases should be case sensitive at all, and
has now
ceejay Wrote:
If you don't want to use tags as a communication route, I think you
have to link the two databases up (though it creates a maintenance
problem for someone). I don't think the answer is to try to shoehorn
it all into one database, that would cripple both sets of developers.
Nathaniel Morgan Wrote:
Not too bad for resource use - they seem to take about 7% CPU each
(including any SlimServer overheads - I'm running it on the same box)
on my
Athlon64. Could be media encoding dependant though?
I might try out alternative players with their own web interfaces
The whole wireless networking thing is such a mixed bag.
I've been having problems with my SB playing OK for a bit (minutes, not
hours) then starting to stutter. Like you I've got the less then
perfect (though domestically necessary) situation of the SB, router and
server (all Belkin kit) all
I feel I'm getting a bit off topic of the original meaning of the
thread, but here it comes.
NWP Wrote:
If the databases are linked, either realtime or with periodic
import/exports, how are they linked?
They only way I can think of that would be possible would be linking on
the field that
Hi
My SB2 has been in my office, and powered down when not in use. I came
to turn it on the other day and the screen is completely blank.
I've tested the power supply - that's fine, and there is a small light
coming out of the optical output. Other than that - nothing.
WHAT DO I DO?!
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it for correct time. Is it updated through the network? Are there any
settings for this?
Thanks
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The clock that is part of the screen saver display is there a way to set
it for correct time. Is it updated through the network? Are there any
settings for this?
It's the current time on your server - set it there.
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There is another tag that can be used as an ID tag. Each track made with
a proper tagger knows the CD ID that it came from. The combination of CD
ID and track number should make any track unique.
I don't recall at the moment what the tag is called, but it's the thing
that allows taggers to know
mherger Wrote:
It's the current time on your server - set it there.
On Wintel - I get along fine with Atomic Clock (freeware).
http://worldtimeserver.com
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
There is another tag that can be used as an ID tag. Each track made with
a proper tagger knows the CD ID that it came from. The combination of CD
ID and track number should make any track unique.
I don't recall at the moment what the tag is called, but it's the thing
Fair enough. There has to be a process that assigns tag IDs for music
that didn't come from CDs, like music that came from old LPs, speeches
like you say, home recordings, etc.
This is why I say there has to be a tagger that can handle the needs of
Slmserver, but isn't part of Slimserver and can
Is it just the screen that is completely blank, or can you not connect
via the web interface and play music at all ?
First suggestion to rule out just screen blankage: Press the brightness
button on the remote a couple of times - it could be that SB is on and
functioning but the brightness has
Siduhe Wrote:
Is it just the screen that is completely blank, or can you not connect
via the web interface and play music at all ?
I will try that when I get home, but other options not looking good.
Siduhe Wrote:
First suggestion to rule out just screen blankage: Press the brightness
An update on this- no good news yet. :(
have now exchanged around 12 emails with draytek...still no nearer to
resolution. I'm told it is with their 2nd/3rd line support engineers..
I have no idea how they can hope to resolve this without actually
building this in their lab.
What can cause the
I agree, not good. Support[at]slimdevices.com may be a good idea.
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rudholm Wrote:
Yep. danish is elliptical for Danish pastry (it's even in the
dictionary this way).
Dad's from Copenhagen and he refers to such a pastry as a danish so I
figure it's fair game for me...Of course it is, but in exactly the same way
that microwave is
elliptical for microwave
radish Wrote:
Seagate IDE drives are amazingly quiet, but the SATA models are
(annoyingly) louder. The Samsung SpinPoint have a good reputation for
being silent but the only one I've bought is very loud, so I guess it
must vary from model to model. Read up carefully on silentpcreview.com.
I
Hey ceejay, I am using method 2, browsing via Artwork to the album and
playing. As I mentioned earler, when I browse to the album and open
it, all the tracks display in correct order. However, when I tell it
to play is when the order is not in sync. I did check the tags and
they have the
Geoff,
Yes I can see how that would work. I would prefer to be able to see it
from the browse by artist menu though.
It seems inconsistant to me that slimserver has identified an album as
being a compilation (by virtue of the artist tags being different), but
has then decided not to apply the
Yeah, I must have a duff Samsung. I have probably 4 or 5 IDE Barracuda's
and they're all nice and quiet, but the identical model in SATA form is
much louder (this has been confirmed by others).
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Can anyone help me please. I was checking out Skins for my PC and selected
one which I cannot now clear from my desktop. I did not catch the name of it,
but it looks like an Apple I-Pod skin. White screen, Large Icons. There appears
to be no way back to change this. I've clicked on all
Fishbone works with 6.5 on IE7, but the last time I tried it didn't work
with 6.2.2
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erland Wrote:
There are also a third option for linking which might be possible to
use, but I think it isn't supported by slimserver yet. This third
option is the new PUID defined by musicdns.org.
Careful: PUID's are not unique.
They're very very close. Like this one:
You can get back to the default skin by browsing to
http://localhost:9000/Default/ , where of course you insert the name or
IP of your machine running slimserver in place of 'localhost'.
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I just realized that the digital output (RCA) will not turn off even I
power off it from remote or server.
This is a serious bug, since I won't be able to share my external D/A
with my transport now. The D/A does auto sense, once the RCA signal is
there, it has the priority and will never switch
Thanks - worked great!
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lovemov Wrote:
I just realized that the digital output (RCA) will not turn off even I
power off it from remote or server.
This is a serious bug, since I won't be able to share my external D/A
with my transport now. The D/A does auto sense, once the RCA signal is
there, it has the priority
tom permutt Wrote:
Of course it is, but in exactly the same way that microwave is
elliptical for microwave oven. I just found it noteworthy that you
took danish for granted at a time when microwave was still strange
to you. I am old enough to remember when some people still thought it
was
Hello everyone, this is my first post, i got my squeezebox this morning,
at work.
I'm wondering if anybody has started working on a PSP skin for
SlimServer.
I'm a programmer/graphic designer working on interfaces for cellphone
games so i'm used to small screen sizes and UI stuff.
I have many
This is a software feature and will be changed. What you consider a bug
is a benefit for others, since having the output on at all times helps
to maintain sync with the receiver in situations where you would not
want to drop the carrier, eg to avoid a few seconds of lock time lag.
This was an
you should probably check out the work done by BKLASS on the Nokia 770
skin which many use on the PSP... very interested to see the work which
could be done for a dedicated PSP skin - as I use my PSP to view the
interface very often
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To my knowledge, no. But, you might start by looking at the Nokia770
skin in slimserver 6.5, which is heavily javascripted and built for a
handheld landscape display. I know that at least a few have been using
that skin on PSP to some level of success.
There was a major change introduced to 6.5
lovemov Wrote:
I just realized that the digital output (RCA) will not turn off even I
power off it from remote or server.
This is a serious bug, since I won't be able to share my external D/A
with my transport now. The D/A does auto sense, once the RCA signal is
there, it has the priority
fingers Wrote:
My tags are setup as follows: Album Artist\Album\Number -
Title. Can you please explain what I need to change in order to have
a leading 0 in front of the single digit track numbers?
Thanks
I'm puzzled by this comment - this sounds like you're describing the
file path
On 5/25/06, Glenn Coombs wrote:
It seems inconsistant to me that slimserver has identified an album as
being a compilation (by virtue of the artist tags being different), but
has then decided not to apply the same rules it does when it identifies
a compilation album by virtue of the TCMP or
Ok, i'll take a look at the Nokia skin but it really looks like it's
designed specially for touch screen use.
What i'm planning is designing in an interface focusing on DPAD use
and highly optimized for the PSP display.
My head is boiling with ideas at the moment. I have to dig info about
the
The guy who did our product photography is 'good friends' with Pink
Martini's singer. Of course we loved the band anyway and they we
suitable different to The Clash. We do like to use such opportunities
to highlight music we love and it's cool to be in the position to do
it.
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Hopefully the 770 will be quicker once the new 2006 OS update is
released...
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Make it configurable is the way to go. Cool, I can wait for the new
releases, no problem. Thanks.
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rudholm Wrote:
I assume television set was the proper term, but was a radio a radio
set? Will a network music player ever become a network? I hope
not.Indeed, radio set was once the jargon. Furthermore, it was meant to
suggest that what was being talked about was not a single device but a
probably not as puzzled as me ;)
I am pretty much a newbie at all of this.
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tom permutt Wrote:
Indeed, radio set was once the jargon. Furthermore, it was meant to
suggest that what was being talked about was not a single device but a
collection of devices, mainly tubes, even after radios (sic) were being
sold in single boxes to people not manly enough to build their
rudholm Wrote:
Ah, it hadn't ocurred to me that set in that context meant, well,
set.
Some trivia for fellow logophiles: the word set had more meanings
than any other in English.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=set
I also like scan - it has two exactly opposite meanings!
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Yeah, peruse is like scan in that regard. And the term moot point (all-too-often misspoken as mute point) has undergone a change in meaning from a point worthy of discussion to exactly the opposite.
I've always found the evolution of language to be fascinating.On 5/25/06, seanadams
[EMAIL
NWP Wrote:
If you don't mind something larger, you could always check out a tablet
PC. You can usually find old Fujitsu Stylistic touchpads with a
pentium III 400 MHz for under $200 on ebay. Put Firefox or Opera on it
though because I hear a lot of the AJAX stuff in the 770 doesn't work
bklaas Wrote:
Whoa, that's a heck of a thought. I had no idea you could pick up a
touchscreen that cheap. Do you have one? Anyone have one? Anyone used
it for controlling slimserver? If it's a great slim remote I would
mostly care less if it did anything else well...
I still have a dream
Lowrent, keep us informed of your progress.
I have a PSP but find the other inferfaces slow and too memory hungry
for the PSP. Sadly I don't have any skills to help.
I would love some simple interface that possibly displayed art when
playing. Along the lines of the Sonos display ;-)
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I've seen similar problems that went away after I blew away the data
base and rescanned. Just rescan wasn't good enough.
In windows, with the server stopped, blow away
\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache
and restart the server.
YMMV
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If you are looking for something even cheaper, here's a really good
thread on the Jornada that can supposedly be bought off ebay for
$120-140ish and run linux:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=threadid=1811688
I'm not sure how it would do with the nokia 700 skin because of the
Sorry, I mistyped. I meant I had allegiance to my Nokia770 skin, not to
the 770 itself (I edited it after I posted the comment). I'm impressed
with the effort and the concept of the 770, but it's a far from perfect
device.
I have considered that Nokia770 isn't probably the best name for the
skin
I had run 6.2.1 for a month or so with no problems at all. I then tried
the beta version 6.5b1 and ever since then have had problems,
specifically
1) if I do a clear and rescan it dosn't clear the existing library
2) it is very hard to enter a new music folder. I enter it, click
Change, the new
One more important question about those stylistic pads: do they make
noise? I'm assuming they have a fan (and a HD), but in your experience
were they quiet?
cheers,
#!/ben
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bklaas Wrote:
Yeah, I'm thinking bartop for the stylistic. It'd always be plugged
in and dedicated to controlling the squeezebox (I'm thinking firefox in
full-screen mode). With those tablets that cheap, it's going to be hard
to resist not getting one at some point. How did you feel about
seanadams Wrote:
Some trivia for fellow logophiles: the word set has more meanings than
any other in English. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=set
I also like scan - it has two exactly opposite meanings!
A list of such words can be found here:
Good stuff...800x600 would look fantastic with the Nokia770 skin (the
770 is 800 pixels wide as well, and my UI design decisions are all
based on an 800 pixel wide screen).
This will be an interesting thing to check out...luckily I'm in no
hurry so I can wait a few months and see if these ever
I've seen the same behaviour, and nothing was improved by jumping all
the way up to 6.5 instead. I'm going to try and downgrade to a nightly
build of 6.3 and see if that fix's things
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fingers Wrote:
probably not as puzzled as me ;)
I am pretty much a newbie at all of this. I have confirmed that the ID
tags do show 2 digits per track (01, 02, 03 etc). Is there a
configuration setting within SlimServer that I can order the tracks by?
No, there is no configuration
I've started ripping cds in FLAC, because its native to the SB3.
Accordingly, my understanding is that it should allow ff and rew inside
the song, where formats that must be converted (for example apple
lossless etc.) do not offer this.
Unfortunately I am not able to ff and rew within each song.
There really should be a dedicated NAS forum on here these days
with stickies :)
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jodrell, If you upgrade / downgrade to / from 6.5 to any other version -
it is worth deleting your database slimserversql.db file entirely before
doing the upgrade / downgrade.
For what it's worth, I'm very happy with 6.3 currently (although it's
still pre-release).
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erm, tried the up/downgrade with no joy (6.3 stays up for about 30
seconds before going away again) . . . where do I find the
slimserversql.db so that I can delete it?? I'm running it on OSX
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That sounds pretty much like the problem I had until I deleted the db.
The build of the database is very different between 6.2/3 and 6.5
branches.
See the 6th or 7th post in this thread for details relevant to mac
setup.
When adding a whole album, the tracks are all added individually to the
playlist.
Let's say I add 5 albums in a playlist, it's almost impossible to swap
the order of album number 2 and 3. I would need to play with arrows for
30 minutes to reorder the albums.
I suggest the albums added in a
Lowrent Wrote:
When adding a whole album, the tracks are all added individually to the
playlist.
Let's say I add 5 albums in a playlist, it's almost impossible to swap
the order of album number 2 and 3. I would need to play with arrows for
30 minutes to reorder the albums.
I suggest
Jim:
I am a new SB3 user, but have a Dell Axim v50 already. Can I use the
Axim as a remote to play .flac files? (I've been ripping all my CDs
to flac.) All the chatter I've seen (and the TelCanto site) only
reference MP3 and wav.
Thanks,
Roger
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Has anyone gotten the 880 to work with squeeze 3 and discrete on/off
codes? If so, how did you do it? I tried telling it to use PowerOn
and PowerOff codes but it didn't work.
THanks,
Lanier
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seanadams Wrote:
trivia for fellow logophiles
An enthusiast of the logo programming language? :-)
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lanierb Wrote:
Has anyone gotten the 880 to work with squeeze 3 and discrete on/off
codes? If so, how did you do it? I tried telling it to use PowerOn
and PowerOff codes but it didn't work.
THanks,
Lanier
I just use the toggle. I have a feeling you may need to fiddle with the
Update:
I got a response from Tech support today. They suggested resetting the
Xilink which I already did. They also suggested pressing the left arrow
for five seconds to bring up the setup networking screen. Negative...
I guess I'll have to return the unit for warranty service.
Now, I am
The format is MP3. I am using a program called THE GODFATHER to confirm
the tag values. I have tried Mp3Tag before but found that it rescans
the music folder each and everytime it is launched which takes a
considerable amount of time. It also is much more combersome to use
than The Godfather
jacobson Wrote:
Ever since upgrading to 6.2.2, I have not been able to play ANY music.
Regardless of what track I try to play, I get Can't Open File For on
the player, whether a squeezebox or softsqueeze. I have tried
uninstalling, deleting the database, full rescans, downgrading to
I could upgrade to 6.3. I haven't tried that yet. I usually use the
rpms on a Fedora server. 6.3 is only in tarballs. Any tricks to
upgrading from an rpm to a tarball?
HAJ
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When using WinMP10 referinc the slimserver stream:
http:your server/stream.mp3
I can't see any of the tag info, i.e. no Album, Artist or Track. All I
see is Song:stream and Playing 'stream'': XYZ Kbits/sec. I suspect
it is WinMP10, but would like to get that confirmed.
When I play to the same
crooner wrote:
This is the first time in all my computer years that I have a
catastrophic failure on a device. I've never had a total HD failure for
instance.. And I've been using PCs since 1989, almost 20 years!
Not once? Wow.
Perhaps it's because my company provides
You will needd to buy Seagates now they bought Maxtor.
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Does WMP handle the metadata from a live mp3 radio station? Try the
stream below to test. SlimServer sends now playing info in the same
fashion (interleaved metadata within the stream). I know it works with
Winamp and iTunes so my first thought is a bug in WMP.
That's exactly the sort of thing that I hear when using Softsqueeze when
streaming mp3 from my home server over the Internet. Most often it
happens when I skip a track. Just before the new track starts I'll
hear a very small fragment of the skipped track. But I also get the
same thing when
Well, I was basically talking about computer equipment for home use.
Perhaps I had a problem or two with office machines back when I used to
work as system administrator. Still, reliability was not bad at all.
I remember my first HD was a clunker ST seagate (full height) with 33
MB capacity. I
CeeJay's right in spirit, but separate linked databases scare me as a great source of problems. A single database extended on demand with an externally described schema can be done, but it's not particularly easy. Hence our current state.
I'd like to see a persistent database with support for
By the way, I am typing this on a $499 laptop from Fry's Electronics
(ZX-5360). I bought it back in October and has been working flawlessly
since day 1. Very impressive given this brand (Great Quality) is often
dubbed as cheap. This thing is reliable and does the job for me. It
has never crashed!
On 5/25/06, Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
seanadams Wrote: trivia for fellow logophilesAn enthusiast of the logo programming language? :-)
Finally, the Slimserver rewrite all those frustrated developers keep asking for!/Just kidding :)-- I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So
Going back to the original subject of this thread regarding
capitalization, I do have a problem with SlimServer ignoring what I
so-purposefully put in the tags.
I'm trying to maintain album and track names as faithfully as possible
to how they are listed on the album itself, and this includes
The question is really, though, whether typographic changes are Artist
Intent for the music or just for cover art.
I have tons of tracks that should be in allcaps if I went by cover
art That would be painful to read.
In most cases, I don't think the band is changing their name, just
their
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